This document provides a brief overview of the SMPTE (Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers) standards for broadcast over IP networks. It also details the various impairments that can be used when testing for ST 2110-21, and proposes a test procedure to ensure the network system meets ST 2110-21 standards.

Choosing SD-WAN is a no-brainer for many enterprises. It provides them with greater flexibility and control, and the agility to succeed in today’s fast-paced world. But given the large number of SD-WAN vendors and service providers flooding the market, which flavor of SD-WAN to purchase is a much tougher decision.

The Calnex A100 was designed with SyncE in mind and supports both SyncE pass-thru and synchronisation to external clock references, as well as the 25GbE and 10GbE interfaces that fronthaul requires. The Calnex A100 can also filter on, and impair, specific eCPRI and RoE message types thereby helping engineers understand how eCPRI and RoE behave in a real fronthaul network.

As the growth of satellite communications accelerates, organisations across the globe are turning to network emulators to ensure quality of service prior to deployment.

The nature of power utilities networks is that they are increasingly reliant on the use of communications networks. Moreover there is a growing trend to move away from legacy technologies (in this case Time-Division Multiplexing or TDM) and adopt packet-based (TCP/IP) networks.

Application performance issues are a frustration most enterprises will likely suffer – 89% of business executives say that poor application performance negatively impacts their business on a regular basis, according to the Riverbed Application Performance Survey.

As network infrastructures are being asked to cope with the modern strains of business operations, the associated challenges in how to effectively monitor, manage and troubleshoot their problems are getting ever more demanding.

Knowing your network inside out can help optimise performance, and deliver the connectivity that meets business and customer needs both now and in the future. In the always-on world of today, near-constant network uptime is paramount for most businesses. Yet ever increasing strains on networks mean slowdowns and outages are still commonplace.

Why is it your customer doesn't receive the throughput they paid for? Oftentimes the actual throughput represents only a fraction of the expected bandwidth. This white paper explains why throughput is adversly affected by latency and packet loss.